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Psionic Powers, Practitioners, & Perils (5e)

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Harness the Power of Psionics!

This handbook contains rules and mechanics that will allow DMs and players to integrate psionics seamlessly with their 5th edition campaigns. In addition to detailing the core mechanics of psionic manifesting, psionic feats, and over 80 new psionic powers; this book contains the following new features:

Playable Races:

Dromite

Duergar *(New as of v1.8)

Elan

Githyanki

Githzerai

Base Class:

Psion

Archetypes:

Lurk (Rogue)

Psychic Warrior (Fighter)

Way of the Mind (Monk)

Monsters & NPCs

5e Revamps: Aboleths, Mind Flayers, Cranium Rats, Quaggoth Thonot, Thri-Kreen

New to 5e: Astral Constructs, Gem Dragons, Urophions, Sybillic Guardians, and more!

Items

A few sample psionic items for DMs to use as rewards, more to come!

Updates (as of 1.9)

Includes conversions of some Xanathar's Guide to Everything spells, and an update to the 'sentience' rules and definitions to reflect the precedent set by said spells.

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Eli C November 21, 2020 8:10 am UTC
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I am not sure if this is an oversight or a deliberate design choice, but: the powers list seems to be missing any kind of equivalent to the teleport spell. Which seems especially odd given that the psion has a whole entire subclass devoted specifically to movement and teleportation. Am I missing something here, like perhaps a low-level power that eventually scales up to world-spanning distances, or a combination of powers/class features/feats/etc? Or is this a deliberate limitation of your version of psions and psionics?
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Eli C January 29, 2021 11:05 am UTC
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Still waiting for an answer.
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T. B April 21, 2023 1:57 am UTC
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Apologies for the lengthy delay. I can only assume that this was an oversight on my part. I don't see any reason why you couldn't use the teleport spell as a power of the psychoportation discipline.
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Ron R May 12, 2020 7:04 pm UTC
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I just bought this and I am loving the design - however, I'm concerned that with the way focusing works, you're going to be actually manifesting powers very rarely as a psion. Am I reading it right that you wont be able to cast an actual first level power until the third round of combat? (start with 0pp, focus; round 2 gain 1d2pp, cancel focus; round 3 cast 1 power; round 4 start focus...). By this point I feel like most combats are over, and the amount of time to save up enough points to cast a 5th level power (nevermind 9th level!) seems like it will be forever. Am I missing something?
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Nicholas B May 12, 2020 7:12 pm UTC
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This is my concern, as well. As a DM, I'm now having to artificially extend combat just so that the Psion can do something cool. It seems to me that this class design heavily leans into the "average of 8 encounters per long rest" model that 5e was built upon... but which in practice is never really applicable.

You could have a single-encounter day where late-game casters are popping off their high-level spells while the psion is sitting there focusing for 4 rounds to get off a single high-level cast for the entire encounter.

Am I missing something? I understand there needs to be a balance of "unlimited spell slots" vs how often you can cast them, but my current reading of the focus rules seems to limit it too far for my taste. Can you clarify if the above poster is correct?
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T. B May 13, 2020 1:34 am UTC
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Thank you both for purchasing my work, and for the constructive feedback/query!

Yes, you are correctly interpreting the rules as I originally wrote them. Before I suggest a possible tweak to the current rules, I do want to present some counterpoints to the concerns you both have over the length of time a psion needs to focus to use higher level powers.

1) Cantrips/Sciences. Maybe I am unusual in this regard, but I've frequently found in 5e I spend most combat encounters chucking cantrips and *maybe* one or two spells proper...only going HAM on spells with 'boss' fights when the rest of the party is struggling. With the focus system as it stands, you can still do the former without issue, though the latter is by design a bit more difficult.

2) Psicrystal. For the psion, you can and should slot your best combat power to use in the face of an emergency, allowing you to manifest a potent power on turn 0, then use your bonus action to immediately initiate focus. Combined with...See more
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Ron R June 12, 2020 5:27 pm UTC
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T.B.,

Thanks for replying! I agree that cantrips are the majority of what I use as a caster in combat - I was just worried that with focusing it's ALL I'd ever be able to do. I do think your houserule makes sense and I will try it out.

One other question, do you feel it foes against your intentions with the rules to have the psion 'pre-charge' before combat, if he knows one is coming? To jump into focus for hopefully at least a round or two before the combat begins in order to start with a few points in their pool?
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T. B June 18, 2020 7:57 pm UTC
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Ron,

I do think that pre-charging before a battle would be contrary to the spirit (and some of the text) of the focus mechanic. That said, if you or your GM want to wiggle that rule if the party has worked their circumstances just right, I would at bare minimum bump them to the bottom of initiative. Again though, I would really stress that your PCs would need to execute their strategy and setup remarkably well and with good stealth checks to allow one or two rounds of pre-charging.
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Joe R July 24, 2018 3:36 am UTC
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How do psion powers relate to discipline? I notice that every science and power has a related discipline, but I am unclear if the psion has to be of that discipline to use that power. It seems unlikely, since there are too few sciences in each discipline to reach the four known at first level. Yet, I am unclear why then each power has an associated discipline.
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T. B August 05, 2018 8:56 pm UTC
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Power disciplines function similarly to schools of magic (ie Conjuration, Evocation, etc), acting primarily as descriptive categories, though mechanically some effects and class features do modify or interact with powers of certain disciplines only. Psions can choose to learn powers of any discipline regardless of their specialization (though Psionic Mastery will only apply to those of their chosen disciplines), but Lurks and Psychic Warriors are limited in the disciplines they draw from and can learn at a given level (similar to Eldritch Knights and Arcane Tricksters).
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Taylre G April 12, 2018 8:43 pm UTC
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Shouldn't telapthic message be a science, since it's basically equivalent to message, and shouldn't manipulate momentum be a level 1 power, since no other "cantrip" in the game has the ability to knock someone prone?
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T. B May 01, 2018 12:30 am UTC
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Hi there,

'Telepathic message' was written up as a level 1 power, and not a science, because it has several substantial improvements over the arcane/divine 'message' spell. Firstly, it is unhindered by zones of silence, and secondly it consists of entirely mental communication. Whereas 'message' the spell requires the caster to whisper, and is thus subject to mundane forms of detection, 'telepathic message' is virtually undetectable and thus highly useful on stealth missions (or to coordinate a plan subtly in the presence of a potential foe).
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mike W September 14, 2017 9:34 pm UTC
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Under psicrystals it states its the channel through which a psion’s powers are manifested. Does this mean that if the crystal is placed somewhere within the 60' rng that powers will manifest thu where the crystal is as opposed to where the psion is?
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mike W August 29, 2017 6:00 pm UTC
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On the feat mind trap shouldn't that be a reaction to do that?
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T. B September 01, 2017 11:02 pm UTC
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I was planning on an update this weekend. I'll give that a look and see if it needs rewording.

Thanks for the comment!
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T. B September 06, 2017 3:28 am UTC
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The language of this feat has been revised (as of 1.8) to reflect the fact that it is intended to be used as a reaction.

Again, thanks for the input!
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Benoit D April 12, 2017 8:12 am UTC
A few sample pages of content to check the editing and layouts would be nice!
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T. B April 12, 2017 1:23 pm UTC
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Huh, I could have sworn I enabled more preview pages than are showing up currently. Will see if I can't get that fixed.
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